Wireless Woes 11.10

[praseodym]

Did you blacklist rt2800pci? Reboot after that.

[fleamour]

I do not understand?

Did you blacklist rt2800pci? Reboot after that.

[praseodym]

echo "blacklist rt2800pci" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-rt2800pci.conf

[fleamour]

Ah, sorry, not paying attention. Have to enter code line by line not contiguously. Stupid, stupid...

I get this error:

fleamour@ASRock:~$ wget http://media.cdn.ubuntu-de.org/forum/attachments/2739482/DPO_RT3562_3592_3062_LinuxSTA_V2.4.1.1_20101217_prepared.tar.
--2011-12-05 22:07:27--  http://media.cdn.ubuntu-de.org/forum/attachments/2739482/DPO_RT3562_3592_3062_LinuxSTA_V2.4.1.1_20101217_prepared.tar.
Resolving media.cdn.ubuntu-de.org... 213.95.41.13
Connecting to media.cdn.ubuntu-de.org|213.95.41.13|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2011-12-05 22:07:27 ERROR 404: Not Found.

I guess address wrong or syntax error?

[praseodym]

Its a "tar.gz" file:

wget http://media.cdn.ubuntu-de.org/forum/attachments/2739482/DPO_RT3562_3592_3062_LinuxSTA_V2.4.1.1_20101217_prepared.tar.gz

[fleamour]

Yeh, I did not enter whole line of code. I was being stooooopiiid, again...

The code needed entering in whole & in the right order without forgetting what you just entered. But suffice to say, you iz like a walking talking genius, or something! I now proudly type this over the magic of wireless, oh yes!

To recap, thanks to your ninja like CLI skillz, installing this driver solved it for me:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential linux-firmware
wget http://media.cdn.ubuntu-de.org/forum/attachments/2739482/DPO_RT3562_3592_3062_LinuxSTA_V2.4.1.1_20101217_prepared.tar.gz
tar xvf DPO_RT3562_3592_3062_LinuxSTA_V2.4.1.1_20101217_prepared.tar.gz
cd DPO_RT3562_3592_3062_LinuxSTA_V2.4.1.1_20101217_prepared
sudo make
sudo make install 
echo "blacklist rt2800pci" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-rt2800pci.conf

Gotta lurve Linux!

[praseodym]

Please show

uname -a

You should install the metapackage of the kernel-headers (e.g. linux-headers-generic, -generic-pae, whatever kernel is in use). Dont remove the driver folder, after a kernel upgrade the driver needs to be installed again via:

cd DPO_RT3562_3592_3062_LinuxSTA_V2.4.1.1_20101217_prepared
sudo make clean
sudo make
sudo make uninstall
sudo make install

[fleamour]

fleamour@ASRock:~$ uname -a
Linux ASRock 3.0.0-13-generic #22-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 2 13:25:36 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

So this is a non standard driver? I guess it's not in the kernel then, hence reinstall each kernel upgrade? OK must make a note.

[praseodym]

No, its non-standard. Install

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

and you're done with those other 5 command lines.

[fleamour]

OK. Thanks for your help.